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The Strand is a daily 18 minute programme highlighting the best of what's going in the arts. Wide-ranging and with eclectic interests, The Strand reflects the artistic response to the BBC's news agenda. Presented by Harriett Gilbert and friends, it features discussions, reviews, big-name interviews and location reports as well as live studio performances and Hollywood, Bollywood gossip.

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The Strand Archive: 26/07/2012

26/07/2012

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, 26/07/2012

The latest on Russian girl band Pussy Riot and the protests sparked by their imprisonment.

The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day. Presented by Harriet Gilbert.

On today's programme: The latest on Russian girl group Pussy Riot who have been imprisoned and charged with 'hooliganism on the grounds of religious hatred'. Dutch author Herman Koch discusses the dilemma at the heart of his novel “The Dinner”. Artist Martin Creed tells us about the explosion of bell-ringing which he will lead to mark the opening of the 2012 Olympics.

Image: Members of the all-girl punk band 'Pussy Riot' Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (L), Maria Alyokhina (R) and Yekaterina Samutsevich (C), sit behind bars during a court hearing in Moscow on July 23, 2012.

Photo credit: ANDREY SMIRNOV/AFP/GettyImages

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